Never3ndr
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I did go out of my way to say that we all should have equal opportunity, which seems to be the core of what you are getting at.I'm a liberal and I staunch disagree with the idea that all men are created equal. However, I strongly support that they should be given equal opportunity...which is a separate issue.Do you believe that all men are created equal? I'd like your POV. I have asked this on other sites several times, and actually was surprised at the different answers. Curious to see now what is said.
Men = person...so you know.
Just as a quick example to support my position, saying all men are created equal would be like saying that everybody is capable of achieving basketball greatness like Michael Jordan, capable of the singing talents of Michael Jackson, able to have the intellectual innovation and genius to match Sir Issac Newton, or be capable of the acts of pure good shown by Mother Teresa. This just simply is not true. We are made differently and unequal. However, it is the beauty of our inequality that makes unity special and makes those that are able to achieve greatness worthy of being the role models we pursue.
That's not what created equal means, bub.
It means that all humans are created equal with inalienable rights coming from The Creator (God, nature, whatever your ideology specifies). Nobody has the right to infringe upon another's inalienable rights (which at bottom are essentially the right to be left alone).
However, it may just be a difference of definition, but I do not believe that men being equal and men having equal rights are the same thing...which is why I don't believe men being equal while I firmly support men having equal rights.